Beth B

Provenance: Courtesy of the Artist

Portrait #12 is one of 21 black and white photos that were shown at Deitch Projects,
NYC as part of the exhibition, Portraits & Playthings, by Beth B. Concurrently, a book
entitled Portraits was published by Deitch Projects.

Beth B is an award-winning director of independent feature-length documentary and narrative films as well as Network Television documentaries. She is also acclaimed photographer and multimedia installation artist with works shown at, and acquired by, the Whitney Museum and MoMA. She has been the subject of several books and documentaries, including The Cinema  of Transgression; Art, Performance, Media; Super 8: An Illustrated History; and No Wave: Underground 80; and Downtown Film and TV Culture. Her films have been shown at museums and cinemas worldwide as well as film festivals including: The New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, SXSW, DOC NYC Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Locarno Film Festival and others. Awards include: The National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, MADE IN NYC Women’s Fund, Anonymous Was A Woman, The Public Art Fund, The Bohen Foundation and others. Beth B’s work has shown at galleries including: Deitch Projects and PPOW with video installations, photography and sculpture. Museum exhibitions include: presentations at the Museum of Modern Art “Cineprobe/Video Viewpoints”, “Doc Fortnight” and “Modern Mondays”; the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, N.C.; the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck; the Gemeentemuseum in Den Haag; and the Hayward Center in London.

Her films have been the subject of retrospectives at The Metrograph Theater, NYC, London’s National Film Theater; the Montreal Film Festival; Lisbon’s Nucleo Dos Cineastas Independentes; and the Danish Film Institute. She has also served on the competition juries at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. Her current feature documentary LYDIA LUNCH – The War Is Never Over is the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry and will be release in 2021.